Miguel Bajouco is a consultant psychiatrist at the Department of Psychiatry at Coimbra Hospital and University Centre (CHUC), invited lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra (FMUC).
Graduated (2008) and Master in Medicine by FMUC (2010), he specialized in Psychiatry (2011-2016) at CHUC (Sobral Cid Psychiatric Hospital and Coimbra University Hospital) and at the prestigious Maudsley Hospital in London, where in 2014 he held a position as Honorary Psychiatrist in the early intervention team in psychosis OASIS. At the same time was also a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Psychosis at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London.
His clinical practice is comprehensive, including different psychiatric disorders, but with a special interest in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. At CHUC, he develops clinical activity in the Early Intervention in Psychosis team and in the Psychosis Inpatient Unit.
At the academic level, he lectures Medical Psychology and Neurosciences and Mental Health at FMUC.
He is a clinical researcher at the Institute of Psychological Medicine of FMUC and at CIBIT (Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research), aiming to discover biomarkers of treatment response in Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders through brain imaging techniques such as PET and Functional Magnetic Resonance associated with Artificial Intelligence techniques.
He is author or co-author of several book chapters and scientific articles in international peer-review journals. He received several national and international scientific awards, including the D. Manuel de Mello Scholarship (most important research award for young doctors in Portugal).
